Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1-942 – Effect of foreign nonprofit domestication and conversion
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1-942
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
A. When a domestication and conversion of a foreign nonprofit corporation to a domestic business corporation becomes effective, all of the following shall apply:
(1) The title to all real and personal property, both tangible and intangible, of the corporation remains in the corporation without any transfer, assignment, reversion or impairment.
(2) The liabilities of the corporation remain the liabilities of the corporation.
(3) An action or proceeding pending against the corporation continues against the corporation as if the domestication and conversion had not occurred.
(4) The articles of nonprofit domestication and conversion, or the articles of incorporation attached to the articles of nonprofit domestication and conversion, constitute the articles of incorporation of the corporation.
(5) Shares, other securities, obligations, rights to acquire shares or other securities of the corporation, or cash or other property shall be issued or paid as provided pursuant to the laws of the foreign jurisdiction, so long as at least one share is outstanding immediately after the effective time.
(6) The corporation is deemed to be all of the following:
(a) A domestic corporation for all purposes.
(b) The same corporation without interruption as the foreign nonprofit corporation.
(c) Incorporated on the date the foreign nonprofit corporation was originally incorporated.
B. The owner liability of a member of a foreign nonprofit corporation that domesticates and converts to a domestic business corporation shall be as follows:
(1) The domestication and conversion does not discharge any owner liability under the laws of the foreign jurisdiction to the extent any such owner liability arose before the effective time of the articles of nonprofit domestication and conversion.
(2) The member shall not have owner liability under the laws of the foreign jurisdiction for any debt, obligation, or liability of the corporation that arises after the effective time of the articles of nonprofit domestication and conversion.
(3) The provisions of the laws of the foreign jurisdiction shall continue to apply to the collection or discharge of any owner liability preserved by Paragraph (B)(1) of this Section, as if the domestication and conversion had not occurred.
(4) The member shall have whatever rights of contribution from other members are provided by the laws of the foreign jurisdiction with respect to any owner liability preserved by Paragraph (B)(1) of this Section, as if the domestication and conversion had not occurred.
Acts 2014, No. 328, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.